Cabbages and Squash

Some things did really well this year. The cabbage seedlings escaped being mowed down by ground squirrels and produced some really nice heads:

The smaller ones are a variety called Pixie, which are supposed to be softball-sized personal cabbages. They got a bit bigger than expected. The larger ones are the Early Round Dutch, which I’ve grown before.

Some of these might get made into sauerkraut. The rest I will wrap in paper and store them in the old garage. The temperature stays around 50 degrees in there.

The red cabbages are a few weeks behind.

I checked on the pumpkin patch, which is also doing well. We should have a few Georgia Roasters:

Elysian grew these a few years ago. They are very sweet. They will be more of a pale orange when ripe.

The pumpkins are coming along nicely:

This variety is called Winter Luxury. I should have plenty to can up for pies for the husband.

I am hoping for more butternut squash:

The reason I say “hoping” is because these need a few more weeks to ripen. If we get a killing frost early this year—which happened a few years ago—I’ll have a lot of unripe butternut squash.

The packet of seeds which were labeled Purple Beauty peppers turned out to be a hot yellow banana pepper. I would never grow any peppers that hot, so the whole packet had to have been mislabeled. I’ve had enough issues with my seed supplier over the past couple of years that it’s time to find a different one.

A brief but intense storm came through last night. The husband and I were on the front porch looking at a tree that had blown down in the woods when another one came down in the front yard:

We got a few hours of rain with the storm, so that was good.

The hardware for the Haralson Bag came in yesterday’s mail. If I can steal a few minutes from the schedule today, I’ll install it. I probably won’t be able to finish the bag yet, though.